Terrible Quotes

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

I'm a terrible golfer.

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.